Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-4703
Fax: (773) 834-3816
Office: BPSB 125B
Ed Awh is a professor in the Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior. His laboratory focuses on behavioral and neural studies of memory and attention.
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-3189
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Beecher Hall 303
Wilma A. Bainbridge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of perception and memory, looking at how certain items are intrinsically more memorable than others, and how the brain is sensitive to this information.
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-9574
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Kelly Hall 306
Akram Bakkour joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2020. His research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of memory and decision making. He is interested in exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which relational memory supports value-based decision making in health and disease.
Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Department of Psychology
Office phone: (773) 702-1436
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Green Hall 416
Marc Berman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and is involved in the Cognition, Social and Integrative Neuroscience programs.
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-6211
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Beecher Hall 206
Lin Bian joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in 2021. Her research examines the development of social cognition, with an emphasis on children’s reasoning about social categories.
Irving B. Harris Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and the College
Office phone: (773) 834-3711
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Kelly Hall 308
Labs: Kelly Hall 310, 312, 314, 315
Child NeuroSuite: Beecher 302, 312
Jean Decety examines the psychological and neural mechanisms of moral cognition and social decision-making in children and grownups using behavioral economics games and functional neuroimaging.
Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-3701
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Kelly Hall 303
Labs: Kelly Hall 309, 311, 313
David A. Gallo joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2005. He researches the basic neurocognitive processes of human memory, how we actively (and sometimes inaccurately) reconstruct the past, and how healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease affect these processes. For more detailed information, visit the Memory Lab Webpage.
Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-2585
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab phone: (773) 702-1562
Office: Green Hall 408
Labs: Green Hall 510
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her current work investigates the gestures that accompany speech in hearing individuals.
Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-6174
Fax: (773) 702-6898
Office: BPSB 331
Leslie Kay has been at The University of Chicago since 2000. Her laboratory (http://kaylab.uchicago.edu) studies olfactory and limbic system neurophysiology, focusing on the mechanisms and functions associated with intra- and inter-regional oscillatory cooperativity.
William Benton Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-5830
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab Phone: (773) 702-9081
Office: Beecher Hall 213
Lab: Beecher Hall 208
Boaz Keysar is the William Benton Professor in Psychology at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from the Hebrew University in 1984 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 under the mentorship of Sam Glucksberg. After serving as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Keysar joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1991. Together with his students and collaborators, Keysar studies the relationship between decision-making and language use. He has contributed to the study of figurative language and to the understanding of perspective taking. Professor Keysar has made discoveries about the impact of using a foreign language on choice, the way that language modality affects reasoning, how language affects health decisions and negotiations, and more. His research has received substantial interest in media outlets such as Scientific American, NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, SF Chronicle, The Economist, Der Spiegel, China Daily, MSNBC, NPR, and Freakonomics.
Keysar's honors include a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship. He has received major grants from NIH and NSF. He was awarded the President's Service award by President Clinton for his non-profit work.
For Keysar’s Lab and publications
Professor; Chair, Department of Psychology
Office phone: (773) 702-0710
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab Phone: (773) 834-5631
Office: Green Hall 201
Lab: Kelly Hall 209
Katherine D. Kinzler is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Her research sits at the intersection of developmental and social psychology. Her work focuses on the origins of prejudice and ingroup/outgroup thinking, with an emphasis on understanding how language and accent mark social groups. She is also interested in food cognition and moral psychology. Please visit the Development of Social Cognition Lab for current projects, collaborators, and media.
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-9532
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Kelly Hall 304
Yuan Chang Leong joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2021. His research aims to understand the neural and computational mechanisms by which motivation (e.g., goals, desires, and needs) influences human cognition (e.g., perception, reasoning and decision-making).
Rebecca Anne Boylan Distinguished Service Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-8844
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab phone: (773) 834-4170
Office: Green Hall 403
Lab: Green Hall 401
Susan Levine joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1976. She is the director of the UChicago Science of Learning Center. Her research focuses on the malleability of language, math, and spatial skills. Ongoing projects examine the role of various kinds of instruction in children’s learning trajectories.
Associate Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-4302
Fax: (773) 702-6898
Office: BPSB 125C
Sarah London received her PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA. She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in how the brain develops, especially how early experience can alter neural function and behavior.
Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-3224
Fax: (773) 702-0037
Office: Anatomy Building 224
I was trained by Mark Konishi during my graduate studies at Caltech and by Nobuo Suga during my postdoctoral studies at Washington University. In my own work, I try to maintain the neuroethological perspective that their work has so elegantly embodied.
Associate Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-1026
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Green Hall 414
Greg J. Norman joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2012 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.
• Social neuroscience
• Psychophysiology
• Behavioral endocrinology
• Behavioral genetics
Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology; Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Office phone: (773) 702-6468
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab phone: (773) 834-1986
Office: Beecher Hall 408
Labs: Beecher Hall 402, 404, 406, 410
Wisdom, language use, attention, learning, memory consolidation and sleep, working memory, understanding, affect, categorization, cognitive neuropharmocology, cognitive engineering and human factors
Marshall Field IV Professor
Office phone: TBA
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Kelly 408
Lab: Kelly 410, 412, 414
Shigehiro Oishi's research focuses on culture, social ecology, and well-being.
Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-2895
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Lab phone: (773) 702-8441
Office: BPSB 324
Lab: BPSB 301, 302, 303
Brian Prendergast has been at the University of Chicago since 2003.
Psychoneuroimmunology
Behavioral neuroendocrinology
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-8869
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Beecher Hall 313
Monica Rosenberg joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2019. Her research explores how we pay attention, and how insights from attention research can help improve focus. In particular, she builds models that predict individual differences in attention and cognition from patterns of brain connectivity measured using functional neuroimaging.
Associate Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-1534
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Green Hall 409
Alex Shaw joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2015. Broadly he is interested in how human beings navigate the complex social world by tracking each others' reputations and by signaling to others.
Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Office phone: (773) 702-8842
Fax: (773) 702-6898
Lab phone: (773) 702-9412
Office: BPSB 125D
Lab: BPSB 112
Steven Shevell is a professor of Psychology and of Ophthalmology & Visual Science and a faculty member in the graduate program in Computational Neuroscience.
Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor
Office phone: (773) 702-1524
Office: Rosenwald Hall 305B
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago. His recent research examines the scopes and limits of pluralism and the multicultural challenge in Western liberal democracies.
Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-3816
Fax: (773) 834-3816
Office: BPSB 125A
Ed Vogel is a professor in the Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior. His recent work has centered on characterizing neural mechanisms underlying brief lapses of attention and how they contribute to individual differences in overall cognitive ability.
William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology; Dean, Division of the Social Sciences
Office phone: (773) 834-1375
Fax: (773) 702-0886
Office: Green Hall 412
Labs: Green Hall 212-216, 222
Amanda Woodward joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1993. Amanda Woodward is the William S. Gray Professor of Psychology and Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences. Her research investigates social cognition during infancy and early childhood. In particular, she and her students are interested in how children reason about and learn from the actions of other people.
Assistant Professor
Office phone: (773) 834-7836
Fax: (773) 834-3816
Office: BPSB 328
Jai Yu joined the Department of Psychology in 2020 as an Assistant Professor. His research aims towards understanding the neurophysiological mechanisms that enable the transformation of experience into knowledge.
